Mon 04 September 2023: Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attend the G20 Summit in New Delhi this week and the delegation will be led by Premier Li Qiang, the foreign ministry announced here on Monday. At the invitation of the government of the Republic of India, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang will […]
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Mon 04 September 2023: Malaysia has dropped a multimillion-dollar corruption case against Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi on charges he defrauded a foundation. Zahid had faced 47 charges involving multiple counts of criminal breach of trust, corruption and money laundering related to the misuse of $27m of funds at Yayasan Akalbudi, a charity he […]
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Mon 04 September 2023: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will try to persuade Putin to return to a Ukraine grain export deal that had helped ease a global food crisis when the two leaders meet in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi. “The current status [of the grain deal] will be discussed at the summit […]
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Mon 04 September 2023: An independent investigation into the docking of the Lady R vessel at the Simon’s Town Naval Base in the Western Cape has found no evidence to support allegations that South Africa supplied weapons to Russia during the current Ukraine-Russia conflict. This was revealed by President Cyril Ramaphosa during an address to […]
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Sun 03 September 2023: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Sunday that he had chosen to remove Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov and would seek parliament this week to replace him with Rustem Umerov, the head of Ukraine’s biggest privatization fund. If Umerov’s appointment is approved by parliament, he will be Ukraine’s first Muslim and Crimean […]
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Sun 03 September 2023: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has ruled out a quick-fix trade deal with India, making it impossible to get an agreement over the line in time for this week’s G20 summit in Delhi – and possibly even by next year’s elections, the media reported. Multiple sources close to the negotiations have […]
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Sun 03 September 2023: The fire that killed at least 76 people in a five storey building in Johannesburg on 31 August is not an isolated incident, and has elicited the usual unhelpful response from some city officials and politicians. They have placed the blame on the informal occupation of abandoned buildings, a phenomenon known as “hijacking”. They have […]
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Sun 03 September 2023: A new poll suggested nearly half of Canadians are living paycheque to paycheque as the cost of living crisis continues to squeeze household budgets, and young people are more likely to say their finances are in poor shape. It also suggests the Conservatives, who are hammering home a message about affordability, […]
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Sun 03 September 2023: After 184 days on the International Space Station, UAE astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi will begin his journey down to Earth when the SpaceX Dragon capsule undocks at 3:05 p.m. UAE time on Sunday following a successful hatch closure. In the live broadcast from NASA, al-Neyadi could be seen aboard the capsule with […]
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Sun 03 September 2023: Following intense opposition from Swedish legislators, the Nobel Foundation reversed its decision to invite Russia’s envoy to Sweden to the Nobel Prize ceremony. The Nobel Prize foundation stated in a statement released on Saturday in Stockholm, “We … choose to repeat last year’s exception to regular practice – that is, to […]
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